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Catching Up On Readings: Deep Learning

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th 2012

As background to our new series on big data and machine learning, which will be published later this week, readers may want to check out this VentureBeat article on “deep learning,” a field still in the early stages of development even though products like Google Street View incorporate it. Click on the paragraph link for

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 6)

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th 2012

Sramana Mitra: How did you convince your first couple of customers to go with you? Omer Artun: They were people whom I helped as a consultant. Once I built up trust with them, I told them I could do what this other vendor was doing for them much cheaper and better. That is how I

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th 2012

Sramana Mitra: What e-commerce systems do they work with? Omer Artun: This doesn’t matter to us. It is a rest API.  Any e-commerce system can pull the data out of it. If you think about the day in a life of a marketer, we are trying to do other things than just starting up recommendations

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th 2012

Sramana: What is your market reach? Lon Otremba: We are consistently running 10 million unique players a month. That is growing rapidly. We had 8 million just three months ago. The trajectory we are on now is one that we hope will provide us with 30 million monthly players by January or February. Sramana: How

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Nov 24th 2012

Sramana: Where did your journey go after Muzak? Lon Otremba: After I left I joined New York Angels and I was looking at a few other situations where I could be a good fit. In the mean time I became an investor and board member in both Internet media companies as well as medical technology

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Nov 23rd 2012

Sramana: Once you realized that the large corporate environment of a place like Procter and Gamble was not for you, what did you do next? Lon Otremba: I was offered the opportunity to get into the media business with a company that published trade magazines. It was an opportunity to sell magazines and make more

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 22nd 2012

Sramana: Lon, let’s start with the background that leads up to the Tylted story. Where are you from? Lon Otremba: I grew up in Michigan. I am an identical twin and I was part of a family that was involved in the automotive industry. My father spent 38 years with the same company. My uncles

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Trend Spotting: Global Services Exchanges and Capitalism 2.0

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 21st 2012

I have been watching the trend for a while … the amount of outsourced business being transacted on the various services exchanges around the world is HUGE. We have done story after story on this trend. Here is a summary of the links: eLance, oDesk, Freelancer.com & vWorker (these two have recently merged), CrowdFlower, CrowdSpring, etc. Our

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